kingdmx3 ( David Mosquera)

You sent the money to him before he ever replied to you about whether you should send the money to the same account as the first payment.
Then you, after the fact, wrote him and told him you sent it...presumably because you were concerned about whether he was going to accept your offer of the lower price you negotiated in your multiple, and somewhat confusing messages to him.

In the interim, without having any additional information, regarding whether he is home, in the hospital, is aware that the payment was made etc, you have called him out as a thief who has stolen your money. After a day or two.

It's time to settle down a little. You can either wait to hear from him or contact your bank or credit card company to file a dispute or see what options you have.

After all the comments you made earlier about the seller, and after saying that you would wait to pay for the item after receiving the original purchases in the pipeline, it seems to make little sense that you went ahead and paid up front, contradicting exactly what you said you were going to do.

We, the moderators, can only wait to see if everyone is made whole before taking any action on the seller's account. To do otherwise might leave some folks with no way to communicate with the seller. This is why we are asking everyone to make it known here whether they received the items purchased.

ETA: I don't recommend you getting the address of the seller and showing up at his home. A better idea might be to contact the local authorities, rather than get yourself arrested in the process over a couple hundred bucks.
 
Blues said:
You sent the money to him before he ever replied to you about whether you should send the money to the same account as the first payment.
Then you, after the fact, wrote him and told him you sent it...presumably because you were concerned about whether he was going to accept your offer of the lower price you negotiated in your multiple, and somewhat confusing messages to him.

In the interim, without having any additional information, regarding whether he is home, in the hospital, is aware that the payment was made etc, you have called him out as a thief who has stolen your money. After a day or two.

It's time to settle down a little. You can either wait to hear from him or contact your bank or credit card company to file a dispute or see what options you have.

After all the comments you made earlier about the seller, and after saying that you would wait to pay for the item after receiving the original purchases in the pipeline, it seems to make little sense that you went ahead and paid up front, contradicting exactly what you said you were going to do.

We, the moderators, can only wait to see if everyone is made whole before taking any action on the seller's account. To do otherwise might leave some folks with no way to communicate with the seller. This is why we are asking everyone to make it known here whether they received the items purchased.

ETA: I don't recommend you getting the address of the seller and showing up at his home. A better idea might be to contact the local authorities, rather than get yourself arrested in the process over a couple hundred bucks.
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My apologies. And you're right. Except for one issue. He DID agree to the price. You saw that communication and so did all the other mods.

I, on the other hand, made the mistake of jumping the gun and in good faith, sent the money sooner than I had originally planned, so that is on me. Lesson learned.

I'll get my anger in check (much respect to you for the message), and dial up some patience.
Again, my apologies for over reacting to a situation that I had a hand in creating. Hopefully this ends well and Mr. Mosquera sends my knife.

As far as his address, I already have that in Georgia. I also happen to have family and attorneys in Georgia as well. Less than 40 MILES from my family in Royston. What luck. I'd be right own the street from Jackson County courts.
Hopefully, it won't come to it but I am a guy that stands on principle and have no issue hiring a lawyer to make sure this guy can't just walk away from this with my money. And I'll do that even if it costs more than the $260.00 I'm already out of. I have resources, unlimited time off from work, a place to stay in Georgia, and the time and resolve to go to court in Jefferson if needed.

This info may help persuade Mr. Mosquera to do the right thin and honor our contract.

In the meantime, I'll just wait on you guys (mods) and do whatever you tell me is next.

Again, my apologies to the entire team.

Respectfully,
Ronnie Hale
 
Hale Storm said:
My apologies. And you're right. Except for one issue. He DID agree to the price. You saw that communication and so did all the other mods.

I, on the other hand, made the mistake of jumping the gun and in good faith, sent the money sooner than I had originally planned, so that is on me. Lesson learned.

I'll get my anger in check (much respect to you for the message), and dial up some patience.
Again, my apologies for over reacting to a situation that I had a hand in creating. Hopefully this ends well and Mr. Mosquera sends my knife.
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Yes, he did, but in private conversations with my fellow moderators, I brought up that I was concerned about the state of mind of the seller at the time you broached the subject, (numerous times), and wondered if he was clear headed at the time, which was right after he reported his release from the hospital.

So, while he agreed, I think it might also be argued that he was overwhelmed by the pressure being brought to bear on him by the number of matters needing resolution "immediately". And you were, in my mind, pushing the matter quite a bit.

I've never spent a week in the hospital from a heart attack, so I can't speak from experience, but I'm going to guess that you don't just return home and resume normal activity as if nothing ever happened.

Again, while I concur that he is bound by his agreement with you, I have my concerns about how lucid he was given the avalanche of DMs he had to respond to, packages to send, as well as the pressure brought about via this thread and the aforementioned messages.

He is not the only one at fault in this particular instance. That's my opinion, despite our intention to hold him to the agreement which only you can excuse him from.
 
Blues said:
Yes, he did, but in private conversations with my fellow moderators, I brought up that I was concerned about the state of mind of the seller at the time you broached the subject, (numerous times), and wondered if he was clear headed at the time, which was right after he reported his release from the hospital.

So, while he agreed, I think it might also be argued that he was overwhelmed by the pressure being brought to bear on him by the number of matters needing resolution "immediately". And you were, in my mind, pushing the matter quite a bit.

I've never spent a week in the hospital from a heart attack, so I can't speak from experience, but I'm going to guess that you don't just return home and resume normal activity as if nothing ever happened.

Again, while I concur that he is bound by his agreement with you, I have my concerns about how lucid he was given the avalanche of DMs he had to respond to, packages to send, as well as the pressure brought about via this thread and the aforementioned messages.

He is not the only one at fault in this particular instance. That's my opinion, despite our intention to hold him to the agreement which only you can excuse him from.
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Thank you sir.
And I don't disagree with your thoughts on his state of mind to a certain degree, but we all have to be accountable for what we say and do. It's what makes BF the pre-eminent blade forum in the world.
All of us can only assume there is pressure via this thread on him at this point, since he has not responded to any of us that I'm aware of.
Let's see what develops this week. I wish him a speedy recovery.
 
Thank you. Hopefully we'll soon be able to put this miasma behind us.
 
I don't browse much of the other parts of blade forums, so I just found this thread about him. I suppose its time to throw my hat in this ring.

I bought the GSO 4.1 D3V from his listing, and I paid on Feb 13th. I was told the blade would begin shipping on Feb 14th. No update was given till Friday the 20th when he told me he had a heart attack.
Saturday the 21st at 2:37pm this was apart of his message "But yes I’m actually supposed to check back in today I left to ship these." Assuming he was referring to my blade and others that were waiting.

I haven't heard anything from him since. I still don't have tracking or know if my blade is currently shipping. I highly doubt that since I live 1 hour from Atlanta, where his profile states he lives. So a package would take 2 days at most to get to me from there. Yet still no package has shown up.

I paid with G&S and am very close to filing my claim on him through PayPal. I've been told I have the patients of a saint, but the 2 weeks of waiting, zero real communication, and 2x of "its about to ship" is very much testing that.
 
DrBC said:
I paid with G&S and am very close to filing my claim on him through PayPal.
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Not a bad idea under the circumstances since we have no way of knowing his status at this point.
 
Blues said:
If I were in touch with him and had....do you think I wouldn't let you know?

No, I have no additional info to share at this juncture.

He hasn't been on the site since 4.36 PM on Saturday
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I didn't mean it like that. I don't know how you guys handle these issues behind the scene. I guess I just walk away from it at this point? Nothing I can do short of going to Georgia to get my money back.
 
Hale Storm said:
I didn't mean it like that. I don't know how you guys handle these issues behind the scene. I guess I just walk away from it at this point? Nothing I can do short of going to Georgia to get my money back.
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As mentioned previously, our capabilities are restricted to taking action on the member's account. Suspension, ban etc.

Anything else is up to the financial institutions involved in the transactions, and, if applicable, law enforcement if there is fraud involved and it meets the criteria and threshold for investigation.

Once we have heard from all parties as to whether they have received their goods or not, we can make a determination on the member's account.

That said, if we banned him now, there might be no way for at least some members to maintain contact with him through this site, assuming contact is reestablished.

I've already addressed the "going to Georgia" matter. You're on your own there...I've given you the best advice I can in that regard.
 
Blues said:
As mentioned previously, our capabilities are restricted to taking action on the member's account. Suspension, ban etc.

Anything else is up to the financial institutions involved in the transactions, and, if applicable, law enforcement if there is fraud involved and it meets the criteria and threshold for investigation.

Once we have heard from all parties as to whether they have received their goods or not, we can make a determination on the member's account.

That said, if we banned him now, there might be no way for at least some members to maintain contact with him through this site, assuming contact is reestablished.

I've already addressed the "going to Georgia" matter. You're on your own there...I've given you the best advice I can in that regard.
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Thank you sir. And thanks for the advice and hard work on this issue. I doubt we'll ever see him on here again. He wasn't very active to begin with. It is what it is.
 
If the seller was looking to scam people then why did he come back here and ship the 1st round of knives? Makes no sense that he is intentionally trying to scam anyone. What is known is he had spent that 1st week of radio silence in hospital after having a heart attack. I hope the seller is doing okay and his remaining buyers still waiting for their knives get what they paid for. I got what I paid for so i'm complete with the seller.

Thank you also to all the Mods that are monitoring this situation.
 
In truth, what we "know" is what we've been told...both by the seller as well as the buyers, as well as what is available in posts and threads.
I'm very careful, (as someone who has conducted complex international investigations), about the distinction between what I think is true, and what, in fact, may be true.

Taking everyone at their word, the seller had a family emergency, then himself had a health issue of his own which has resulted in a mixed bag of buyers, (apparently), some of whom have had their purchases fulfilled, and at least one who has not.

Now we haven't seen the seller in nearly a week on this site, and all we have are questions, at the moment, regarding his health, his ability to fulfill the outstanding order(s), or whether he is at home or in hospital.

Since, I no longer have the power of the federal government and the authority of my former employment to wield in the pursuit of getting answers, we are dependent upon our members coming forward to fill us in, and / or the seller himself, who has been missing in action for six days.

I feel the same frustration as our members, without the potential financial burden involved. We take it seriously, we will continue to advocate for our members, but we are working with one arm tied behind our back and one leg in a potato sack.

Take whatever legal steps you can to protect yourself financially if you have doubts about the seller's ability or intent to fulfill the outstanding orders.

It's a waiting game at the moment.
 
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